There's also that from the instant all of her mooks hit the ground Viconia knew she was not leaving that scene alive no matter what she tried, the odds were just too high. (She couldn't even hope to pop some kind of escape spell and run - Aylin is camping the door upstairs, and there's only one way out of the building.) So facing death with dignity is about all she's got left, because otherwise she gets to die in a gang stomping. Like Sarevok did. *rimshot*
I always like to think that after screwing up Shar's entire Chosen One project with her jealousy and having the actual balls to say that she knew better than Shar in her villain monologue, that when Viconia finally arrived in Shar's realm she got sent to SUPER ULTRA SPECIAL hell.
You're entirely supposed to hear that line with the same delivery of "Stop, please! Don't hit me with water!" from Omni-Man in the latest Mortal Kombat game.
This is now canon.
I imagine Lathander's blessing was letting her, a devout Sharran of all people, attune to and use the mace for so long in the first place. Going by older edition rules with divine relics and alignment requirements, just touching the thing would've scalded her otherwise.
IIRC, in d20 canon the last time the Church of Shar tried to steal the Blood of Lathander the attempt ended when they went from 'carrying it in a sack' to 'trying to fuck around with it', and the resulting divine wrath vaporized the entire heist crew. (I mean, they did get it out of the building and a good distance down the road, so it still counts as a success, but they didn't last all the way home before they goofed.)
This is now canon.
I think you meant flank here.
That, and it keeps a whole big group of divine heavy hitters nice and otherwise-occupied with stopping said potential threat.
Eh. Not being familiar with the game or the setting, I had already wondered why the party were able to split up without a range limit becoming a problem and decided to ignore it.
"He can be taught!"
I'm now imagining her cosplaying as Sailor Moon.
Is this a Faerun specific usage?
Astarion is two hundred years old. He hasn't been a kid for a long time.
Now Isobel just needs to hear about it from people who passed by and saw this. The rumors should be interesting.
institution
Delete this word.
of her true
Yes. It's the term of address for 'nobleman of unknown/indeterminate rank'. It's how you avoid accidentally insulting strange nobles that you're not expected to already know who they are before they've told you what title they actually hold, which is what Hawke presents as (and given that the Hawkes were a Kirkwallian noble family, however impoverished and expat they were at times, he technically is.)
You love to see it, because it's basically a jumped-up commoner trying to schmooze with nobility, a visibly blessed Priestess and an arch-wizard.
Warrior Hawke is a base Fighter until choosing a Specialization, upon which a Templar is a Paladin and Berserker and Reaver are both Barbarians.
Can't take credit for that bit, I'm afraid. That one was all the geniuses at Larian.